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Google's AI Now Creates Code Better Than Its Creators (interestingengineering.com)
13 points by 8sigma 3159 days ago
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> However, nothing else is really known about AutoML. Unlike Alphabet's DeepMind AI, AutoML doesn't have a lot of information available about it...

> It described the intricacies of the AutoML system: "In our approach (which we call "AutoML"), a controller neural net can propose a “child” model architecture...

At first I was nonplussed by the 'code' being ML models, but that now has great value and are currently the abstract (hw+base sw) machines of tomorrow.

The code being created is code embodied in a neural net, not "commercial application" code.